Mark, My blue tooth headset has decided to stop working on me, so I have nothing to test with right now. My memory however is that there is a helper program of some kind that is started when you select a bluetooth audio device.
Some possibilities 1. The volume / sound status bar item will allow you to change audio output if it is selected with the option key. (I described this process earlier today in my note about bluetooth but for the bluetooth menu. 2. You can use User Agent Appel Script to do this. I got as far as turning on / off bluetooth on my mac using an apple script. doing User agent scripting is almost like jaws scripting... tell application "System Preferences" to activate tell system events selectmenu item "Bluetoot" of menu view ... end tell The above is not supposed to be a real applescript program, just an idea of what would have to be in it. Just like in jaws there are ways to find all the elements in a window. There is an example of this that is somewhere like /system/library/applescript/userAgents/ but you don't need to look for it there, since you can almost jump to the right place from the help menu in the AppleScript editor. If you feel this is really beyond your comfort level but something that would make your Macintosh life easier, I might be convinced to help you. :-) In any case since I am not consistently reading my MacVisionaries feel free to contact me offlist. Jonathan [email protected] On Jul 15, 2011, at 12:34 PM, Mark BurningHawk Baxter wrote: > Is there a way to speed up or lessen the keystrokes necessary to activate a > Bluetooth device? I have the streamer paired with my MBP to provide audio to > my hearing aids; works like a headset, and in order to activate it, I have to > do as previously stated; O M twice, over to Bluetooth, down to the headset, > over and down to Use as stereo device, enter... so, can I set up a script or > something to do this? > > > • Mark BurningHawk Baxter > • AIM, Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 > • MSN: [email protected] > • My home page: > • http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
